the real meaning of happiness

Happiness is a sort of dirty concept. In these days, many people, organizations, and even governments, use the concept of “happiness” to base whatever they do; everything is “in the name of happiness”. I think people love to talk about happiness when they really don’t know what that means (or they don’t problematize about this), and they are happy just when their own person is happy, no mattering if around they there’s poverty, injustice, sadness, etc.

For me, happiness is in little things, like beings with your people, doing things you like to do, etc., but especially in knowing that other people is happy too.

I think individualism that governs our society don’t let people to be happy, because they’re always thinking that they can be MORE happy, and finally they spend all their lives looking for a happiness that doesn’t really exist, without enjoying simple situations of every day that can make them happy too. For that two reasons I think Chile is not a happy country, because people don’t care about the happiness of other people, and because people is all the time thinking in the future happiness.